tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16516891095519011442024-03-29T01:15:39.249-07:00Emma's Pet PortraitsBaltimore based artist who does portraits of your furry friendsStudio Kaufmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594457934627321408noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651689109551901144.post-54742139168150045612019-04-26T06:31:00.001-07:002019-04-30T17:21:36.074-07:00Kitty in the City<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So exciting to see a book I illustrated released!! Bennie Bear's Dream is now available to buy on <a href="http://on.com/Bennie-Bears-Dream-Rachel-LaMar/dp/1728306264/">Amazon</a>. The illustrations were done in watercolor and inks and everyone seems to love the book!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bennie Bear has a simple dream…all he wants is a child to love him. Even though other bears think it may never happen, Bennie never gives up. This lovable bear is full of happiness and positive energy, and readers will instantly bond with him, cheer him on and understand the importance of perseverance and love. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well as you know I have a cat called Mouse. Who is my muse and even has her own <a href="http://instagram.com/a.tux.called.mouse">Instagram</a>. Look no fashionable kitty these days is without her own personal instagram. Mouse is an influencer, a mover and a shaker. She is also quite unique. Even though she is quite curious, she has never caught an animal. Yes I have seen her chasing bunnies in the yard. I have seen her chasing squirrels in the yard. I even saw a squirrel chase her up the electrical pole. But she is hopelessly slow in catching anything, maybe her mom never taught her. In any case, all the critters in our yard know they can breathe a huge sigh of relief!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So sooner or later it had to happen. I wrote a children's book about Mouse. It is called <i>Kitty in the City - the cat who just wanted to sing</i>. This is partly because Mouse 'sings' an awful lot. The story is about a theatrical cat who can't stop singing in her garden, and eventually breaks free, wandering the streets of Manhattan before sneaking into a Broadway show and becoming a star!! </span></span><br />
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It's been a whirlwind summer!! I got a new cat called Mouse who I adore and I want to get more only hubby says no (for the moment)! But I really want to be a cat lady. My little baby is a little older than a kitten but still whines in the morning for attention just like an infant. And she is also the best of frenemies with Marshmallow so piggy and cat are usually separated. Mouse is a rascal and into everything and always climbing up the curtains but I wouldn't have it any other way.<br />
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I have already painted Mouse's portrait here:<br />
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But later I could not find her and it turns out she had escaped into the winter wonderland. Oh well at least we found her before nightfall! Have you already had snow where you are? It is rather beautiful but maybe a tad too early for the white stuff.</div>
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Hurrah I am also in the Wraptious design competition so if you could vote for me that would be amazing. Just click the title beneath each image and it will take you to the Wraptious site. There you must click on the blue button to register your vote. They are also available to buy as super soft vegan cushions.</div>
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Is anyone else doing <a href="https://www.marchmeetthemaker.com/">March Meet the Maker</a>? It is meant to be a series of prompts where people post about various aspects of their creative lives onto instagram. I must admit I have not followed the prompts and just did this one about me. Hope it gives you an insight into my zany mind!! I am over at <a href="http://www.instagram.com/studiokaufmann">www.instagram.com/studiokaufmann</a> if you fancy following moi. I promise to follow you back.<br />
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I have been splashing about with my watercolors. I do so love unicorns so I created this magical rainbow creature with plenty of drips and sploshes and yes of course I go it all over my clothes! I believe unicorns exist....and hope to meet one one day!<br />
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I also created this Father's Day card available <a href="https://society6.com/product/unicorns-fathers-day_cards#s6-7034885p22a16v71">here.</a>...I wonder if there are any little girls who actually love daddy more than unicorns? If so this is the card for them.<br />
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You remember how they had that octopus who predicted who would win the World Cup? Well there's a new double act in town who can predict with the best.<br />
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Well you know how the Eurovision Song Contest is on this weekend?? Well I consulted my two piggies who listened to all the entries together.<br />
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I must say I agree with them. Italy's song is hard to beat. It even has a dancing gorilla.<br />
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Like many people I have been captivated by Fiona, a preemie hippo born at <a href="http://cincinnatizoo.org/blog/2017/01/25/premature-hippo-baby-updates/">Cincinnati Zoo</a> who is too adorable for words. I thought I'd do a painting of her splashing about. She is quite the diva.<br />
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You can buy prints of FIONA over at <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/514112290/fiona-the-hippo-art-print-baby-hippo">my Etsy Store.</a>.</span><br />
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I have been busy painting this adorable little bunny which will be available printed on some products over at <a href="https://bohemiancoffeeclub.com/">Bohemian Coffee Club </a>in a few weeks.<br />
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I met a woman at the gym today who I have known on and off for sixteen years. That was at 9.30. We talked a bit about how she was determined to lose 15 lb pounds and I wished her the best of luck. Then I went swimming. I went up and down for an hour and tried to remember what this woman was called.<br />
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It was on the tip of my tongue. I knew her name started with N or maybe M. Then there was a bit of drama I think a woman fainted or twisted her leg and was lying at the side of the pool. Then I trod water while I watched the paramedics come and take this woman to hospital in the ambulance.<br />
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Then I swam a bit more and tried to remember my friend's name. Nada. Nothing.<br />
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It is now 1.20 and I have just remembered this woman's name! It does start with N. Nicola. I think it was the grease in the friend mushrooms that kick started the old grey matter.
I am 46. Honestly I didn't think my brain was going to pack up this early in the game.
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I have heard coffee improves your memory. Is that true? I must say I do love the stuff and my memory is shot to pieces so who knows?
I also did a coffee art piece called COFFEE SPLASH which describes my feelings about the invigorating power of Java.<br />
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I am part of an amazing group of illustrators from the Facebook group <a href="http://facebook.com/erfolgreich.illustrator">Erfolgreich.Illustrator.</a>
Nearly 120 of us submitted designs to the theme of spring which were made into card format which is now available as a freebie <a href="http://byjohannafritz.de/such-den-illustrator-spiel">to download</a>. It is a matching game that is so much fun! Little kids will also find the designs super cute.<br />
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My guinea pig cards are on page 23 beside some amorous ladybugs:
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I've had a busy week of doing dawg portraits. Here's an adorable great dane I did.....first I messed around with masking fluid. Don't you just love pulling up masking fluid? It's so therapeutic!<br />
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This is another spotted dane I did in watercolor and acrylic inks.<br />
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Even thought we've had the heavens open and dump a ton of snow on us I've had a fun week splashing away with watercolors and inks. I created Splash Bunny first and then decided to try drip painting. Here's a little video of the process:<br />
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Splash Bunny can be bought as prints <a href="https://www.curioos.com/product/print/bunny-splash">HERE</a>.<br />
Drip Bunny can be bought as prints <a href="https://www.curioos.com/product/print/drip-bunny">HERE</a>.<br />
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As soon as I saw Lola Robert's photo of her rabbits Benji and Barney I knew I had to paint them. They are too cute for words! She lets people paint pictures from her photos through a site called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/PhotosForArt/">Photos for Artists</a> so do check out more of her work as I can't post it here.<br />
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I ended up doing a bright splashy painting in watercolor and inks. Don't you just love it?<br />
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I have always loved the Easter Bunny and all the work he has done for me over the years painting Easter Eggs with his network of Bunny pals underground and then somehow spreading his colorful bounty all over the world come Easter.<br />
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Honestly I believed in the Easter Bunny way longer than maybe I should have...I'm thinking maybe until I was thirteen. That's because every Easter Sunday, when I lived in London with my mother I would walk or ride on my bike to Regent's Park. Sometimes with my mum, sometimes on my own.<br />
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And I would look behind the trees and I would find Easter Eggs.<br />
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It didn't matter which part of the park I went I would find Easter Eggs. For a long time I didn't even think that my mother might have put them there but even if she had did she really get up at the crack of dawn to hide them all over the park?<br />
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I've been in something of a pastelly, summery type of mood what with our balmy weather so I did this little collection of pastel poodles. They are awfully elegant and look like the type of pooches Audrey Hepburn might have had in Breakfast at Tiffany's and she might have sat in a fancy restaurant and waved her long cigarette lighter at the waiter and demanded they be given a pillow to sit on and a warm bowl of milk.<br />
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Here's the finished painting using washes of watercolor and acrylic inks on paper. I had fun using my new white fineliner pen to create all the little stars in the background. I was using the <a href="http://www.supplygeeks.com/Products/Sakura-of-America-Pentouch-Paint-Marker__SAK42100.aspx">Sakura Pentouch</a> Paint markers and found they did a wonderful job even over a dark background. I do get so excited when I use new products for the first time. Don't you?<br />
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We are having unexpectedly balmy weather here in Baltimore. Some flowers are even popping their heads sheepishly out of the ground and deciding to bloom. All this lovely weather made my brain think of shoots and leaves and while I was thinking of an illustration for theme of Botanical for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/illo52weeks/">52-Week Illustration Challenge</a> this flowery bearded man popped into my head and I thought, why not? He does look like every hipster in skinny jeans around but he also has that Pan Greek mythology look too.<br />
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Inspired by Valentine's Day I painted these sassy Flamingos doing a
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We have been busy making okay eating a lot of cookies. We made a lot of these chocolate gingerbread men which were meant to be for a cookie exchange but we ate them before they were exchanged. It is surprisingly hard to do the icing on these....but luckily I had a hardworking house elf to complete the job.</div>
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Hurrah! Happy Days are here again. I have decided to stop stewing about the election and get back to trying to be cheerful!</div>
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It make me think about birds and how very free they are. I ended up painting a pattern design of blackbirds swirling around a forest.</div>
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I have been very sad and very angry about the outcome of the election. But when all is said and done it was the usual problem of 46% not voting leaving the arena wide open for Trump to seize victory. Let us instead try and move forward however difficult it is.</div>
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I was very sad to hear about Leonard Cohen dying. What a wonderful poet and singer he was. He said he was depressed for much of his life but his songs are curiously uplifting, especially in these very dark times.</div>
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Nevertheless I managed to paint some poison dart frogs, this time as a surface pattern design. I call them happy frogs although who knows if frogs have feelings or not?</div>
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Poison dart frogs are amazingly beautiful creatures which lend themselves to an abstract design. Unfortunately their rain forest habitat is under threat.<br />
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It seems like the run up to the election has been going on for years. I can't tell you how sick I am of it! Get on with it already. </div>
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In an ideal world I would love to sleep through the election...maybe that's why I painted a rather blissed out kitty this week...... I swear if there is reincarnation I need to come back as a fat, spoilt ginger cat. That is my spirit animal! Kitty Siesta buy cards, mugs, <a href="https://society6.com/product/kitty-siesta_cards#s6-6108510p22a16v71">prints here</a>.</div>
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I painted this Rainbow Farting Unicorn in inks as part of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/illo52weeks/">52 Week Illustration Challenge</a> for the theme of RAINBOW. I hope you like him! He is quite the little acrobat!<br />
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My daughter and I were messing around trying to make paintings out of coffee. It looks so effortless on those YouTube videos....to just dribble some coffee on paper and let it make a pretty shape but in reality it is a bit of a nightmare... it tends to flow off with a mind of its own. After several tries I managed to do this one. The grasses/palm trees were blown with a straw so that the coffee spread out in tiny fronds. I added some blue ink as well. I call it Coffee Island.<br />
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Let me take you to Coffee Island<br />
Where the rivers are lattes<br />
and the sand is make of sugar<br />
Where the waterfalls drip Pumpkin Spice Latte<br />
And warm coffee cake grows like flowers.<br />
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Did you ever try painting with coffee? What kinds of results did you get?<br />
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You can buy prints, canvases, rugs etc of COFFEE ISLAND <a href="https://society6.com/product/blue-island38597_print#s6-6039639p4a1v45"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">here</span></a>.<br />
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Studio Kaufmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17594457934627321408noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651689109551901144.post-82669107132994284542016-10-07T11:11:00.000-07:002016-10-08T16:35:53.076-07:00Guinea Pig at Buckingham Palace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello Peeps!!<br />
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We've got fine misty rain and gray skies and I've got a bit of a cold so I'm lying around watching Midsomer Murders and drinking lots of hot chocolate. I'm still working on my children's book about a traveling Guinea Pig and also trying to do <a href="http://inktober.com/">Inktober</a>. You are meant to do one inky drawing a day all October. I have done a few including this guinea pig guarding Buckingham Palace.<br />
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Anyone trying their hand at Inktober?<br />
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Here's another WIP, where the little guinea pig ends up Nanuvut, Canada.<br />
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I have had a pretty uneventful week. Someone told me they had lost 25lb by not eating sugar and that it 'wasn't very difficult.' I am always looking for lazy ways to lose weight.....not that I ever really stick to any of these things but hey ho.<br />
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I did okay with no sugar on Monday.<br />
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I ate three chocolate biscuits and some leftover bread pudding on Tuesday.<br />
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Wednesday and Thursday were ok as I just had some sugar on some Weetabix which doesn't count :)<br />
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Friday I don't think I officially ate any sugar, just, you know the stuff they put into ketchup, pasta sauce etc.<br />
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Well, it's been a week of swings and roundabouts. Maybe just eating less sugar is good enough!!<br />
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Have you ever tried not eating sugar and was it hard?<br />
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Here's my latest acrylic inks painting: GIRAFFE KISS.<br />
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I have to be honest....I cannot stop watching these two guinea pigs talking about pumpkin spice. They just tickle me!<br />
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I am very much looking forward to pumpkin spice latte weather and walking around wearing a fleece vest rather than walking about covered in sweat. I may or may not be experiencing those first hot flashes on the rocky road to menopause but it is also 95 degrees. They have had to close the schools because the kids were overheating. But I am still waiting and longing for Fall....<br />
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I am busy writing a children's book about guinea pigs...I can't really talk about it .......it is about an adventurous guinea pig that travels the world.....watch this space<br />
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I am afraid in the creative process I have more or less become a guinea pig and I am starting to observe the world as if I were covered in fur and walked on four legs and was covered in whiskers. Here is a piece I did called Guinea Pig Logic:<br />
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Okay I'm just going off to nibble on some carrots and hay....
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